Days after Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida, the state is starting to assess the damage and begin recovery efforts. On Tuesday, 2.3 million customers regained power, though millions remain without it. In the Keys, where 25 percent of homes were destroyed in devastating 130 mph winds and a 10-foot storm surge, residents are being allowed to return. An estimated 94,000 people remain in Florida shelters. "We've got a lot of work to do, but everybody's going to come together. We're going to get this state rebuilt," Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) said Tuesday. Meanwhile, Irma, now a post-tropical cyclone, is continuing to make its way north after dumping rain across the Southeast. President Trump is slated to visit Florida on Thursday.

Attorneys for President Trump have given Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office written documents about events under investigation, including summaries of internal White House memos and correspondence, with the hopes that this will keep Mueller from having to ask about certain incidents, two people familiar with the situation told The Washington Post. Trump's lawyers are concerned about Trump being able to handle an interview that could last several hours, and have been negotiating the terms of a one-on-one meeting. The records do not detail Trump's version of events, the Post reports, but rather the White House view. Mueller is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, possible coordination with the Trump campaign, and Trump's potential obstruction of justice.

In a speech in New Hampshire on Monday, President Trump called for deploying the death penalty to combat the national opioid crisis. Trump declared the nationwide opioid epidemic a public health emergency in October. "If we don't get tough on the drug dealers, we're wasting our time," Trump said Monday. "And that toughness includes the death penalty." The president further described "terrible people" who "kill thousands" through drug dealing without consequence. His call for the death penalty garnered a standing ovation from the audience, who also cheered his pledge to spend $6 billion on solving the health crisis in 2018.

In a blow to Republicans ahead of the 2018 midterms, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to Pennsylvania's newly drawn congressional map. In January, the state Supreme Court ruled that the map drawn by Republicans in 2011 was gerrymandered and violated Pennsylvania's constitution, and last month, voted 4-3 to approve a new congressional map that no longer favors the GOP. Under the old map, Republicans usually won 13 of the 18 districts, but with the new boundaries, Democrats are likely to pick up three or four seats.

A woman in Tempe, Arizona, has died after being struck by an Uber car that was operating in "autonomous mode," potentially making her the first pedestrian to be killed by an unmanned vehicle, The New York Times reports. A human driver was in the car when the collision occurred Sunday night around 10 p.m. MT. The woman was apparently outside of the crosswalk when she was hit by the car. Uber is "fully cooperating" with the investigation, a spokeswoman told the Times, and the company has suspended self-driving car tests in Tempe as well as other cities it operates the vehicles in, including Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Toronto.

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon announced Monday that she is running against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the state's Democratic primary. Cuomo — who is the son of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo — was previously unchallenged in the race, and said her run is "just about name recognition." In the video announcing her candidacy, Nixon focuses on education, saying: "New York is where I was raised, and where I am raising my kids. I'm a proud public school graduate and a prouder public school parent. I was given chances I just don't see for most of New York's kids today."